Reiterate Discussion

2 days ago

Before I begin, I'd like to preface this with the fact that I want this to work, you have no idea.

1.) How do you intend to fish out
Genju of the Spires
? It seems fairly important for the deck to run, but I worry it will get flooded out of the odds by the 56 Mountains.

2.) How do you cast things when there's little/no land on your side of the field? I think a deck like this would appreciate some kind of ramp, especially since
Fling
is going to get hella pricey after the first one or two castings.

3 weeks ago

@jordanalessi That's brilliant! I wouldn't say infinite mana is the end game, and the issue with the
Dualcaster Mage
combo is that you can't then go use the Dualcaster Mage flickers to copy a draw spell infinite times like you can with the
Reiterate
combo, and those other cards are kind of dead draws. However, I don't want to take away from how sweet that interaction is. I'll update the downgrades section later to mention this combo since it's cheaper than
Reiterate
. Or I might brew a ~$50 version that would have to use those cards. Very good stuff.

When I have time later I'll look into your budget brews. You're working on far tighter budgets than I am, which is admirable.

3 weeks ago

@bwhit89: Even if
Ral, Storm Conduit
was like $0.05 or if you're playing on a higher budget, it's just not good. This deck has no creatures that can protect Ral if you use him for "value." At 4 mana (a cost that cannot be reduced), the effect is not worth it as a one-shot effect. Dealing damage randomly without actually killing the opponent in one turn isn't what this deck is trying to do, so the static ability is only good as a combo, except that's a 3 card combo, which isn't great (2 or 1 card combos are better). And we already have a "copy spell" combo in
Reiterate
. So, tldr, no to Ral.

@zdennis:
Arcane Denial
is a fine card and you could play it over Mana Leak. I don't want to contribute to the endless "is Arcane Denial a good card" debate, but play it if you want. It's fine and budget.

Fury Storm
looks interesting. I'd lean to the no side, for a couple reasons. First, the RR cost is pretty rough for the deck-- I know I have a few effects that are RR, but we really want to limit that. Second, it's not as good when your hand is clunky, i.e. it by itself doesn't turn an otherwise medium hand into gas. It turns a card in your hand that's gas into yet more gas. We're trying to limit effects like that. Fury Storm is one of the better versions of a card like that, so I'd probably put it in the "maybe" category.

1 month ago

Hi!

Most of the strategies around this deck revolve around playing Mizzix at a time when you can cast a few low cost spells and tick up a few experience counters. Normally Mizzix will be removed very quickly, so having enough mana to cast Mizzix and a few spells is opportune.

If Mizzix is having trouble staying on the board, even getting one experience counter to start the train is enough. Once you have an experience counter, there is support to increase those counters using the many proliferation cards that are included in the deck.

Continue playing politics, nuking the op player, and slowly gain experience counters until you have enough experience counters and mana to cast the big X Spells in this deck like:
Jaya's Immolating Inferno
. These X spells are a primary win condition for the deck, and can be used in combination with the copy spells ie:
Reiterate
, and ritual spells ie.
Seething Song

There are also a few cards like
Sphinx-Bone Wand
that offer even more win-cons if you are missing key pieces.

2 months ago

Hey, with so many Islands consider
High Tide
? If playing High Tide you also want more cards that can untap lands
Frantic Search
,
Turnabout
,
Snap
. These cards are not just good with High Tide, but are good to get more experience counters faster since they're instants which untap lands letting you play other instants/sorceries in a turn.

Reiterate occurrence in decks from the last year

Commander / EDH:

All decks: 0.02%

Red: 0.19%

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